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What secret or forgotten aspect ties your character to the history of your setting? in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 1 year, 9 months agoWhat secret or forgotten aspect ties your character to the history of your setting?
This could be an ancestor involved in a historic event, a similarity to a person of legend, or something else that you have invented. Even if this […] -
Blog: Sally Rooney unveils cover of new novel Intermezzo and plot that explores ‘ethical complexity’ from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 1 year, 9 months agoThe author’s new book will hit UK shelves in September
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Blog: Crawley Heroics Can’t Stop Somerset from
Hachette UK in the group We love Sarah Waters' writing 1 year, 9 months agoWhile the seventh round of the Vitality County Championship may have produced many close-fought, tense outcomes, that was not the case at The Oval, where […]
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Blog: Job opportunity: Desk Editor / Golygydd Desg from
Seren in the group Seren Books 1 year, 9 months agoWe’re looking for a Desk Editor to join our team. Applications are open until the 17th June 2024. Check this post for full details including how to apply.
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Jason Latnar started the topic Any one for Manga? in the forum General Chat 1 year, 9 months ago
Who here reads Manga?
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Blog: Nathan Munday shortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize from
Seren in the group Seren Books 1 year, 9 months agoCongratulations to Nathan Munday whose debut novel ‘Whaling’ has been shortlisted for the Society of Authors Betty Trask Prize.
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I’ve started planning a game where you play as a sentient slime in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 1 year, 9 months agoI've started planning a game where you play as a sentient slime
I’ve started planning a game where you play as a slime. I would like to have a good mix of action and storytelling but in such a way that those who ignore […] -
Blog: Mills & Boon RNA winners! from
Mills & Boon Blog in the group Mills and Boon fans 1 year, 9 months agoLast night, six of our nominated authors attended the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Romantic Novel Awards ceremony for a night in celebration of brilliant rom […]
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Blog: Salman Rushdie says a new Palestinian state would be ‘Taliban-like’ from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 1 year, 9 months agoAuthor argues ‘it’s very strange for young, progressive student politics to kind of support a fascist terrorist group’ in Hamas
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Three weeks ago you met a ghost. Now you are best friends. Only you can see her. in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 1 year, 9 months agoThree weeks ago you met a ghost. Now you are best friends. Only you can see her.
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May 2024 Divestment in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 1 year, 9 months agoMay 2024 Divestment
Freeing up space and tabs this month are a few themed stock image collections and an odd assortment of other stuff. Fun fact: Did you know more than […] -
Bob Bobson replied to the topic What are you all doing now? in the forum General Chat 1 year, 9 months ago
Right now, I’m on the forum replying late to you.
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Blog: Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control; Wuhan: A Documentary Novel – reviews from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 9 months agoDali L Yang’s critique of China’s response in the early days of the Covid pandemic is thoroughgoing if academic, while poet Liao Yiwu’s account mixes fact and f […]
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jeffjohns replied to the topic Description or info dump in the forum Aspiring Authors 1 year, 9 months ago
Info dumps are boring.
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Blog: The Bullet by Tom Lee review – a complicated inheritance from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 9 months agoThis insightful memoir addresses the author and his parents’ struggles with mental illness, and offers a historical account of treatmentsThe year 2008 “should hav […]
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Blog: Long Island by Colm Tóibín review – the sequel to Brooklyn is a masterclass in subtlety and intelligence from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 9 months agoThis follow-up, set 20 years on, kicks off with a marriage in crisis and skilfully conveys how blind we are to our own motivationsThe great thing about writing a […]
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Blog: Sam Taylor: ‘Translating is like X-raying a book. You get a deep tissue read’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 9 months agoThe US-based writer and translator on his new novel set in 1930s Vienna, his deep connection with the authors he has worked with and why he always returns to Donna […]
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Blog: Books for a better world: as chosen by Lenny Henry, Geri Halliwell-Horner, Andrew O’Hagan and others from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 9 months agoGame-changing books that offer hope, as recommended by speakers at this year’s Hay festival, including Theresa May, Tom Holland, Helen Garner and Jon R […]
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Blog: Tom Gauld on the ghost who refuses to leave the earthly realm – cartoon from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 9 months agoContinue reading…
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Blog: Rumbles by Elsa Richardson review – gut reaction from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 9 months agoA vivid cultural of digestion, from ancient Greece to All-BranSome people, observed Samuel Johnson, “have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not t […]
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘How Animals Grieve’ by Kathryn Bevis from
Seren in the group Seren Books 1 year, 9 months agoThis week’s Friday Poem is ‘How Animals Grieve’ by Kathryn Bevis from her collection ‘The Butterfly House’.
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Blog: Hari Kunzru: ‘I am just as enchanted by The Great Gatsby now as when I first read it as an A-level student’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 9 months agoThe British novelist on rereading the classics, his teenage love of outsiders, and discovering the brilliance of Anita BrooknerMy earliest reading memoryI remember […]
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Blog: Worcestershire Pile Up Huge Score in Tribute to Baker from
Hachette UK in the group We love Sarah Waters' writing 1 year, 9 months agoFor the sixth round of the Vitality County Championship, attention inevitably focused on Canterbury, where Worcestershire were the visitors, still rocked by the […]
